Pig '04 mini-report

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Anyone else experience partial memory loss toward the end
of a race? I was experiencing a pulsing sensation in my
head around mile 23. I'm not sure if

I had a teammate who thought he had 3 miles to go at the 25
mile mark (Boston). When he arrived at the finish, he had a
temperature and was possibly dehydrated.

I'm not sure what causes this sort of thing, maybe heat or
dehydration ?

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi pegasus.rutgers.edu~elflordOpen ↗

Mike R. said:

According to my watch, I finished around 3:14:30 but the
official time is
3:15:34 and the website showed a chip time of 3:15:22. Many
other runners had commented on timing discrepancies
that were later corrected by 1 minute. As long as I
was in at 3:15:59 or less, I qualified for Boston! We
will start making plans for next April for the 109th
Boston Marathon!

My previous (and only) marathon was 3:35 so I managed a 20+
minute improvement. I credit a complete training program
(no injuries) and a well maintained base leading up to
training.

Very nice work! If you don't mind, could you write a bit
about the training you did between your marathons that got
you that big 20-minute PR?

Karen

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Anyone else experience partial memory loss toward the
end of a race? I

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experiencing a pulsing sensation in my head around mile
23. I'm not

sure if

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I had a teammate who thought he had 3 miles to go at the
25 mile mark

(Boston).

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When he arrived at the finish, he had a temperature and
was possibly

dehydrated.

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I'm not sure what causes this sort of thing, maybe heat or
dehydration ?

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi pegasus.rutgers.edu~elflordOpen ↗

Of the two, it would have to be dehydration in my case. With
the rain coming down the entire race and the temps in the
40s, I was closer to hypothermia than heat exhaustion. Also,
with the cold rain, I found it impossible to tell if I was
sweating and how much. I was skipping every other hydration
point and taking mostly Gatorade (water with a gel).

Mike

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Very nice work! If you don't mind, could you write a bit
about the training you did between your marathons that got
you that big 20-minute PR?

Karen

Thanks Karen. I am really looking forward to Boston. The
hard part is over and I hope to enjoy every mile next year.

Looking back, I doubt my interim training contributed much
to the improvement. What it did do for me was to maintain my
conditioning enough to avoid injury once I started to ramp
up the mileage again during my latest round of training. I
did run over the summer and fall but it was highly erratic.
I averaged 11 miles per week as a "base" and I did not run
at all for 3 weeks in August after my son was born.

I participated in three 5ks last fall and winter as well as
a triathlon in September. I used those performances and a
number of predictors to set my marathon goal for this
years' Pig.

Actually, my '03 time could have been better for a number of
reasons. It was my first marathon and I was being
conservative. I was injured during my training and never
trained beyond a 16 mile run. I completed only 270 of the
400 miles prescribed by the training program that I was
following
(halhigdon.comMar00novice.htmOpen ↗).

I used the same program this year and worked hard this
winter to meet or exceed my training goals. My next goals
are to introduce some speed work in my training, get my 5k
times below 18:45 and to continue to have fun.

Regards, Mike

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Anyone else experience partial memory loss toward the
end of a race? I was

experiencing a pulsing sensation in my head around mile 23.
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I ran the 1999 Pittsburgh Marathon with a friend who
finished 20 minutes or so in front of me. When I
finished, I found he had just been released from
medical. When we were walking out of the park back to
the car, he didn't recognize any of the finish line set-
up, including the highway overpass we ran under. He
swore it had all been constructed between the time he
and I finished.

Mike

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Anyone else experience partial memory loss toward the
end of a race? I was

experiencing a pulsing sensation in my head around mile
23. I'm not sure if <<

I ran the 1999 Pittsburgh Marathon with a friend who
finished 20 minutes or so in front of me. When I
finished, I found he had just been released from
medical. When we were walking out of the park back to
the car, he didn't recognize any of the finish line
set-up, including the highway overpass we ran under.
He swore it had all been constructed between the time
he and I finished.

Mike

45° and rain are great conditions for getting hypothermia.
Most cases of hypothermia occur when the air temperature is
between 30-50° F and the victims are wet (either rain, being
in water, falling in water, etc.).

The numb fingers are also not a good sign. Neither is being
discoherent (may be able to attribute your memory loss to
that as well).

Glad you survived it!

Be careful out there folks! ~b

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Anyone else experience partial memory loss toward the
end of a race? I was

experiencing a pulsing sensation in my head around mile 23.
I'm not sure if

again, just spouting off, but i would put it to low glucose
in the blood. ...thehick